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Chelation Little Help for Heart Disease: Study – 3/27/2013

March 27, 2013 -- Removing metals from the body through a controversial treatment has little effect on the long-term health of people who've previously suffered a heart attack, according to the results of a government-funded trial released Tuesday.

Researchers found no difference in how many of 1,708 participants died in the four and a half years after they received either so-called chelation therapy or drug-free placebo infusions, and only a small decline in the proportion that needed stents or other heart procedures following chelation.